CSTS is almost here!

The 11th annual North Texas CSTS event is just two weeks away!

This year’s event will include Serenity and Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog,* as well as all of our traditional games and activities. We’ll again be holding costume contests and Evil Laugh competitions for both kids and adults, with pub style trivia rounds interspersed throughout the day. Anyone with donations to bring, please drop us a line at northtexasbrowncoats@gmail.com and let us know what you’ll be bringing – it helps us out tremendously to be able to plan ahead.

Tickets will remain on sale through this website until Friday, September 23rd, and will be available again at the door provided we don’t sell out. At this time we still have plenty of room, but there’s always a rush on ticket sales during the last two weeks, so if you haven’t bought your tickets, now is the time to make sure you get them before they’re gone! 

Here’s this year’s schedule, very similar to last year’s schedule. Keep in mind that timing on live events is fluid and subject to change, and some things may run a bit longer than foreseen. The movies may start a few minutes late, but they will not start early. Registration will remain available for late arrivals in the lobby until Serenity begins.

12:00:  Doors Open
1:00:  Welcome, Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along-Blog*
2:00:  Games, costume contest, Evil Laugh competition
2:45:  Break
3:00:  Serenity
5:00:  Prize winners announced
6:00:  Live auction

See you all in a couple of weeks!

100% of proceeds from North Texas Can’t Stop the Serenity events go to Equality Now, supporting the fight for human rights for women and girls all over the world.
*Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” screened by permission from Time Science Blood Club, LLC. ©Time Science Blood Club, LLC. All rights reserved.

 

CSTS 2016 Tickets are now on sale!

Tickets to the 11th annual North Texas Can’t Stop the Serenity event are now on sale!

Our event this year will include all our traditional games and entertainments, including the Big Damn Movie, contests, auctions and more! It’s never too early to start painting your parasol or brushing up on your evilest laugh for our fun (and often fierce!) competitions! Kids are welcome at our family friendly event, and will have separate, kids’ only versions of the costume and Evil Laugh contests. Our new pub style trivia will also be making an encore appearance this year, so take some time this summer to marathon ALL the Whedon shows!

Really, who needs an excuse to do that?

We do expect tickets to sell out again this year, so get them before they’re gone! Our 2016 event will be Sunday, September 25th, once again at:

Alamo Drafthouse
100 S. Central Expressway #14
RIchardson, TX 75080

Doors open at noon. Full schedule TBA (but likely very similar to last year’s.)

T-shirts (and more!) can be pre-ordered here throughout the summer, but if you wish to have yours in time to wear to the event, your order must be placed no later than September 5th. We’re still looking into a small local print run, and there may be a few shirts available for sale at the event, but there will be no separate pre-ordering on this site. 2016 patches will be up for pre-order shortly.

Stay shiny! And stay tuned for updates!

 

CSTS 2016 Shirts – Online Ordering through Represent

Can’t Stop the serenity is changing the way we do our Global T-shirts! We’ve partnered with Represent, and for the first time ever, T-shirts are available to the general public through online sales, allowing anyone to support CSTS regardless of their proximity to an event location. Whether you can attend an event or simply want to add your support, join us as we aim to misbehave for a good cause!

As you may be aware, Represent is a T-shirt printing company specializing in charity drives. They’ve been the powerful machinery behind several high profile celebrity fundraisers, including efforts by Nathan Fillion, Jared Padalecki, Felicia Day, and many others. In order to maximize the profits for Equality Now, our campaign will work a little differently than a typical short term Represent fundraiser. It will actually be a series of back to back campaigns, relaunching automatically every three weeks throughout the entire CSTS season. At the end of each three week campaign, orders will be printed and shipped, and a new campaign will begin.  This will provide for continuous ordering/shipping throughout the 2016 CSTS season.

100% of T-shirt proceeds will go directly to Equality Now.

This campaign is designed to reduce guesswork and upfront costs for organizers as well as eliminating event losses resulting from unsold stock and other associated expenses. It is our sincere hope that moving our T-shirt production to Represent will allow us to raise funds more effectively through their sales.

We are also excited to be able to offer a much wider variety of styles and colors than we’ve ever been able to before!

Please be advised: shirts may not arrive for up to 8 weeks after the order date.

If you’re ordering a shirt with the intention of wearing it to your local event, please order well in advance to ensure it arrives in time. U.S. customers can anticipate receiving their merchandise approximately three weeks after the end of a campaign, international customers should add an additional week or two to anticipated shipping time, depending on location. Regardless of your event date, orders may be placed at any time.

May 23 (will start to arrive within the US by June 13)
June 13 (will start to arrive in the US by July 4)
July 4 (etc…)
July 25
Aug. 15
Sept. 5

Order yours early and enjoy it all summer! 

Represent 2016 CSTS Shirts

 

 

Important announcement: online sales are down

Okay gang, that PayPal upgrade seems to be rolling out a few days early, and affecting us after all; no one has successfully been able to place an order since late last night. Our integration looks good from both the store end and the server side, so not sure what’s going on but we don’t have time to mess with it now, and I’m shutting down pre-sales on the site. We have a lot of work to do in the next couple of days, so I’m going to ask you all to be patient while I halt all merchandise pre-orders – we’ll have merch available Sunday.

However, I know a lot of people would rather have a guaranteed reservation before making the drive. If you’d like to reserve tickets only, please email us at northtexasbrowncoats@gmail.com with your name and quantity needed (don’t forget to specify child tickets – 12 and under) and we’ll continue making manual reservations for payment at the door until 10:00 pm on Saturday. After that, tickets will be available at the door Sunday, and we’ll do our best to keep you updated via Twitter (@CSTSNTX) if we’re approaching sellout capacity.

If you’ve attempted to place an order and have not been successful, I have records of what you tried to order and will be contacting you with confirmation shortly.

Sorry for the inconvenience everyone! See you Sunday!